This week’s North American Nintendo Downloads are as follows:

Wii U Virtual Console

Super C – $4.99

Wii U DLC/update

Spin the Bottle: Bumpie’s Party – Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the multiplayer, download-only game Spin the Bottle: Bumpie’s Party introduces six new fun mini-games.

3DS Download

Spot the Differences!
AeternoBlade – available on Feb. 18

eShop sale

Games by Rising Star – For a limited time, select Rising Star games are on sale in the Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS, including games like Beyblade Evolution, Jewel Master: Cradle of Rome 2 and Girl’s Fashion Shoot. The offer is available starting today and will run until 9 a.m. PT on March 13.

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Today, Zen United has confirmed a special “Life and Hometown” edition for Senran Kagura Burst. Consumers who purchase the package will receive a copy of the game, A3 3D lenticular poster, and a unique t-shirt.

The Life and Hometown edition for Senran Kagura Burst will be sold on FunStock. Pricing is set at £49.99. Only 500 copies will be produced, so it sounds like this could end up being pretty limited.

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Brace yourself for a fairly long Nintendo Direct presentation – at least in North America. The broadcast is expected to last approximately 41 minutes.

My guess would be that the European and Japanese streams will vary in length, though perhaps just slightly. We do know that Satoru Shibata will be appearing in the European presentation.

Anyway, it sounds like Nintendo could have quite a bit to show. Should be fun!

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This month’s EDGE review scores are as follows:

Banner Saga – 8
Broken Age – 8
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 – 4
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze – 7
Jazzpunk – 9
Nidhogg – 9
Octodad: Dadliest Catch – 5
The Castle Doctrine – 6

Thanks to joclo for the tip.

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Along with this image, director Masahiro Sakurai posted the following to Miiverse:

Pic of the day. Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day…and the day the new Nintendo Direct airs! It will stream in Japan at 7 AM so it’s going to be a very early morning for us…!

I think it’s safe to say that tomorrow’s Smash Bros. update will be a bit more exciting that this one.

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Circle Entertainment recently revealed to Nintendo Everything that the publisher will be bringing Quell Reflect to the eShop. The company’s Chris Chau (producer) as well as FK Digital developers Mickey Lin (director) and Aloner Chiu (assistant director/planner) shared more details about the game in a recent interview. 

Head past the break for our full discussion. Along with Quell Reflect, we asked about Wii U, interest in retail, and the Chinese market.

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First, let’s take a look at the standard boxart for Ace Attorney 123: Wright Selection, which is finally available at a decent size:

And here’s the limited edition boxart for the game:

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More scans from this month’s CoroCoro have appeared showing Diancie, the newest Pokemon. We now know that the creature can use Clear Body as its ability. The first scan above is the new movie poster featuring Diancie while the latter is a clearer/full image which first popped up earlier in the week.

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Finally: a new Wii U announcement coming out of Japan. Kamen Rider: Battride War II was originally thought to be a PlayStation 3-exclusive, but Namco Bandai’s newly-opened website confirms a release on Nintendo’s console as well.

Details are as follows:

– Kamen Rider movies are the stage
– Game has a variety of Kamen Rider works from up until the Heisei era
– New power known as “Ultimate Form”
– Ultimate Form: the specific form change from the Heisei era Kamen Rider movie
– Use the power of Ultimate Form to command the fierce battles from the movie and take down strongest enemies
– New riders and formidable enemies
– The latest Rider, Gaim, and a great number of Riders from all 15 works of the Heisei era, will appear
– New enemies included such as adversary Riders
– W and Accel from Kamen Rider W Forever: A to Z/The Gaia Memories of Fate will appear
– Kamen Rider Eternal‘s Mitsuru Matsuoka will voice Eternal
– Out in Japan on June 26
– 7,120 yen
– 10,450 yen for the “Premium TV & Movie Sound Edition”
– Package will include 40 carefully selected tracks from the TV series and movies on the game disk

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